Fox changed its graphics for MLB telecasts this season and now I can't watch Fox MLB telecasts because all I see is the score bug's tabbed gap, which irritates me to no end.

I just want to reach into the screen and squeeze the two boxes together.

EH?

I'm not fond of the typeface for the pitcher's surname either. It looks particularly hideous when a pitcher has a long surname.

ESPN changed its graphics for SportsCenter this week.

I find Bristol's new hotness both too basic and not minimalist enough.

My all-time favourite use of Helvetica on television is the graphics for MTV's Sports and Music Festival 2.

We made up an imaginary scientific facility where odd hybrids and mutant machines were being created, and designed around that concept. The stark white empty graphics tried to go in the opposite direction of how "extreme" sports are usually packaged. [source]

6. There is now neo-Nazi techno (biggest act: DJ Adolf) and neo-Nazi reggae.

5. Knape is especially proud of his viral-video outreach: last year, his group filmed a "Harlem Shake" video.

4. Such is life as a nipster these days.

3. He also agrees that the Nazi Tumblr style has gotten "more youthful" and "looser."

2. He organizes an annual Live H8 concert, a gathering of neo-Nazi bands that he hopes will "help the mainstreaming of our music" and become "the most extreme Nazi concert" around.

1. He won't elaborate, for legal reasons, but he'll happily share his strong feelings about the series finale of How I Met Your Mother ("The mother dying was a good reminder that the world isn't a great place").

"What do those people do, those who have been chosen?"
"They endure uniqueness."
"To be alien, to be disenfranchised from those around you, is that not a dreadful curse?"
"To be different, to be powerful, is that not a divine gift?"
"To be alone."
"To be seeking."
"What?"
"A lover."
"Like you?"
"Who shares your rarity."
"Then you are no longer unique."
"Nor are you alone." (Penny Dreadful, S01E06)

RT: "The coder gets a botched Black Flag tattoo and it inspires her to write code on a mirror" (Halt and Catch Fire, S01E03)

"If she dies, so be it." (24, S09E08)

"The only way we can stop this from happening is to find Margot fast, so wake the bitch up." (24, S09E08)

Idea: Stage a music festival in an abandoned shopping mall. It's like a bunch of music venues in one – an enclosed SXSW. Vacant department stores are the main stages and stand-alone stores side stages.

What if you were the only person in Las Vegas?

Oculus Rift Software Idea: Wander around a deserted Las Vegas Strip – not a post-apocalyptic Vegas, but Vegas as is in 2014.

"Post-script: Your father loves you very much and would do anything to save you. But I love you in a different way. I love you enough to kill you." (Penny Dreadful, S01E05)

"Siri, why does God allow suffering?" (Veep, S03E09)

"Violence solves everything." (Veep, S03E09)

"Someone has just flown two planes into my career." (Veep, S03E09)

"Thornhill, Chung, and Maddox are continuing on for now."
"Oh, those fuckers. God, can't we just take 'em out? Is Jack Ruby still alive?" (Veep, S03E10)

"The fuck stops here, Dan." (Veep, S03E10)

"Jesus. If I come in third, this could be the shortest administration in history."
"Yeah, like a Snapchat presidency." (Veep, S03E10)

"I came in third, Amy, okay? Even the Nazis came in second." (Veep, S03E10)

Veep Season Grade: A-

Extras (24, S09E07)

Jack drives a left hand drive car in London (24, S09E07)

RT: "Jack Bauer punched a random man out and stole his car, and then stole a brick from a homeless person. Out-of-context 24 is great" (24, S09E07)

RT: "They should have a web series about people who have been Bauered trying to make claims to their insurance companies" (24, S09E07)

RT: "Have [an Allstate commercial] with Logan's limo driver after Jack Robocops them. And then the cut away to President Palmer just shaking his head. 'When Jack Bauer shouts 'You have to trust me!' you'd better have Allstate'" (24, S09E07)

"Weezy's basically a Jew in the bedroom."
"Oh, you mean she wears a wig and makes you do it through a hole in the sheet?" (Fargo, S01E09)

"See you later, Lester. See you soon." (Fargo, S01E09)

"No good ever came from a piece of cherry pie." (Fargo, S01E09)

(Comedy Bang! Bang!, S03E06)

Vice Season Grade: C+

"As long as no one finds a body, we're clear, so we dump him in the lake – with weights."
"Do we have a boat?! Have you ever seen Dexter? I mean, random scuba divers are finding everything!" (Orphan Black, S02E09)

I just finished reading The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson, a young adult/science fiction exploration of friendship.

I try super-hard not to sleep in any classes just to prove that hey, look, I can do it too. If somebody were shadowing me around school today, they wouldn't see me close my eyes, either, though they would see me get more and more irritable and death-resembling and every so often they would see my eyelids bang together involuntarily for just a half a moment longer than a blink is, as my head dips down just slightly until I pull it back up and in my head yell at my eyelids and neck for being so fucking weak. [51]

It's weird to think that once I'm out of high school, that will have been high school. Like, the high school years, the ones everybody gets, those will have been mine, written in stone, unalterable forever. [179]

Idea: A button on airplanes that, when pushed, forces every seat on board into its upright position.